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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Ecofascism Has Wrecked The Global Warming Movement
The climate scare is collapsing as taxpayers and investors realize that shackling the economy with taxes, regulations, and unaffordable subsidies is economic suicide. The messianic doomsayers have overplayed their hand, and opened up their junk science to ridicule.
Posted in Global Warming Scare, Politics, Uncategorized Tagged Australia, cap-and-trade, climate, environmentalism, EPA, Goldman Sachs, US, Wall St Leave a comment
To Win the Election, Obama and Romney Must Promise to Break Up the Big Banks
Campaigning for a break-up of the big banks has gone mainstream. If Obama is to win the election, he will have to stand up for the middle class, which is fed up with the unfairness of the present economic system. This means he will have to tackle the concentration of bank power that continues to threaten economic stability. For while the overarching purpose of the Dodd–Frank reforms was to end Too-Big-Too-Fail, it may actually be increasing banking industry concentration and preventing the economic recovery.
Posted in Companies, Economy, Fund Management, Politics, Uncategorized Tagged Bank of America, Citigroup, Dodd-Frank, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, France, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Too-Big-Too-Fail, UK, US, Wells Fargo Comments closed
Is China Heading for a Hard Landing?
A “soft landing” in China is beginning to look like wishful thinking. To cushion the blow to exporters during the global financial crisis, the Chinese property bubble was inflated recklessly. Built on the foundations of excess investment the Chinese economy had become a house of cards requiring growth to avoid collapse. However, China has had to choke credit to the property sector because absurd property valuations and inflation were beginning to affect social stability. Now the runaway train of development is going off the rails just as the euro-zone crisis is threatening global trade, and the shockwaves will be felt across the world.
A New Wave of Chinese Accounting Scandals Puts Pressure on Regulators to Act
The Sino Forest scandal last year put the spotlight on dodgy Chinese accounting. Chinese companies listed in the West and, were likely to become uninvestable, the Angry Analyst argued. Such negative publicity was also likely to damage confidence in Hong Kong listed stocks. Since then, a wave of new frauds in has hit Chinese companies in New York and Hong Kong, leading to growing pressure on Western regulators to take action.
Posted in Companies, Stockmarket Tagged auditors, China, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, fraud, KPMG, Nasdaq, PCAOB, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SEC, Sino Forest Leave a comment
Eyes Wide Shut as Spain’s Banking System Collapses